<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">The method I used is to connect the drive to the laptop, unmount the NTFS filesystem that is on it, and then do:<br><br>time dd if=/dev/sdb bs=16mb of=/dev/null<br clear="all">
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is finally done ...<br><br># time dd if=/dev/sdb bs=16000k of=/dev/null<br>61047+1 records in<br>61047+1 records out<br>1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB) copied, 28626.2 s, 34.9 MB/s<br>
<br>real 477m6.269s<br>user 0m0.296s<br>sys 19m33.457s<br><br></div><div>That is 7.95 hours ... <br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>
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